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Chocolate and wine - two of our favourite things, which sadly have always been notoriously difficult to match well.
Now the makers of Green & Black's Organic Chocolate have decided to put an end to our torture by arranging marriages for these two treats. Working with Selaks wines they have come up with a set of good chocolate and wine matches, and a list of tips for trying it yourself.
Green & Black's head of taste Micah Carr-Hill says the first thing is to make sure the wine is at least as sweet as the chocolate. To get the best of the match, taste the wine first and allow the flavours to saturate your mouth, then bite the chocolate, letting it melt on your tongue. Then take another sip of the wine.
The matches are:
* Green & Black's Organic 70 per cent Cocoa with Selaks Founders Reserve Syrah.
* Green & Black's Organic Gold Maya with Selaks The Favourite Gewurtztraminer (bottled next month).
* Green & Black's Organic White with Madagascan vanilla, with Selaks The Favourite Sauvignon Blanc.
* Green & Black's Organic Milk with Selaks Premium Selection Pinot Noir 2007.
To let you give wine and chocolate matching a try, we have five hampers each including two 100g blocks from the Green & Black's range, matched with a Selaks wine. The hampers also include 35g bars of all the Green & Black's chocolates.
To enter, email your name and contact details to detours@heraldonsunday.co.nz with "chocolate" in the subject line.
Entries must reach us by 5pm on August 1.
